Rielle Hunter says she's still 'very close friends' with John Edwards

John Edwards’s former lover Rielle Hunter said on Friday that she remains close with the ex-North Carolina senator.

“We’re very, very close friends,” she said in an interview posted on Friday with ABC’s Good Morning America. She said the two are “great co-parents” to their daughter, Quinn, whose out-of-wedlock birth caused an uproar after Edwards admitted in 2010 to fathering her during his 2008 presidential campaign.

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Hunter, a little-known socialite and video producer, was hired by Edwards’ campaign in 2007 to make behind-the-scenes films about his time on the trail. The supermarket tabloid National Enquirer later reported an affair between the two, which included the birth of Quinn, something Donald Trump pointed out in a press conference on Friday when arguing for the Enquirer’s credibility as a news publication.

Edwards was criminally charged in 2011 with five counts relating to allegedly making illegal campaign funds to conceal his affair with Hunter. The Justice Department dismissed the charges in 2012.